Everyone has moved onto Warcraft III. There was a new balance patch today, even.

>>1094504 I'm still playing the old one from 2000. Is that weird?

>>1094557 A bit, DE is a definite improvement in every metric, except gore. Now AOE1, yeah that's worth playing the old version with the HD patch because the DE is so-so, and the version ported to AOE2 lacks most of the campaigns.

>>1094557 >I'm still playing the old one from 2000. Hey sseth.

>>1094753 No. Also Who?

>>1094504 >What's your favourite of the new castles they added to AOE2? GOAT: Mongols Huns Celts Vikings Magyars Goths Malays Romans Slavs 3 Kingdoms Castles COMFY AESTHETIC Franks Incas Japanese Khitan Tangut Fortress IRL, Microshit fucked up big on the china dlc Bulgarians Lithuanians Byzantines Cumans Jurchens Portugese Spanish Tatars Vietnamese Turks (Octagon style castles are cool) OG castles are okay, but I don't hate any one of it.

>>1095433 I feel the Byzantine one could have been so much better but they went for the Theodosian walls instead of an actual Byzantine castle.

>>1095433 So why only castles were redesigned?

>>1096003 Players + history buffs wanna see castles used by their favorite civ, pretty basic and simple, not hard to do especially nowadays. >>1095994 The actual Byzantine castles either have that non-distinct, lime white look to them or in ruins, and the ones that still stood are not 'byzantine-ish' enough. AoE II devs used and made the castle based on what's familiar and easy to recognize i.e. theodosian wall paint with a mediterranean brown dome roof.

>>1096003 Apart from wonders themselves, castles are your crowning achievement. Anyway, they also added religion-specific monk skins now and a new monastery skin.

>>1094554 Warcraft 3 Reforged was cancer though. Why the fuck would you bother?

dota chad singsing is going to expose the aoe2lets today >>1130195 you can disable the bad things about reforged and just play "classic" mode

>>1096003 Because no one builds wonders. If wonders didn't exist and all the art budget went instead into making more unique architecture sets, this game would've been much better.

>>1097190 desu the bulgarians should have the same monastery the byzantines got. I've been there and the stuff that's really there just looks straight up like the in game byzzie monastery.

>>1137040 >bulgarians GANG KREPOST